Building Material Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our…

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

[In art], less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe